Best & Free Resources to Check Your Personal Care Products

These two free-to-use databases have the most thoroughly collected information and have proven to be highly reliable.

You still should check the details and verify the criteria yourself thoughbecause these databases don’t know about your criteria or preferences or maybe allergenes, but they are really, really good to start your research with!

Technical options: Barcode-scan via webcam by typing codecheck.mobi in your smartphone browser; powerful online-search – you can search for products or for single ingredients; “Alternative finden” product search – pick a product and if it’s not good INCI-wise, find an alternative using the “find alternative” feature. Registered users (free) can submit or edit products – and be featured as most active contributors, too – and set up personal product lists or lists visible for a wider public. I will be using this feature a lot in the future 😉

COSMETICS DATABASE: SKIN DEEP®

An EWG-run, US-based cosmetics database. In the US much less ingredients are banned from cosmetics, and as far as I’m informed, California might be just about the safest place to live in the US of A due to the state’s progressive approach to product safety and ethics (foie gras ban FTW!). Hmm, California… The weather… The Harley tours… Oops, I digress 😉

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The BEAUTYCALYPSE woman wants to enjoy her glamourous beauty products and to satisfy her unique fashion sense – but she wants to be sure they will not harm her, other people, or the environment.

The BEAUTYCALYPSE man chooses healthy and organic skincare products and seeks the healthiest balance for his busy lifestyle.

Noticing each other and helping each other is not a blurry new age mantra, but words to live by: "Treat others like you want to be treated" is a classic - and BEAUTYCALYPSE readers don't want the price of their product choices to be death, destruction or intoxication.